"Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer."
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Niklaus Wirth (1999) "A Digital Contrarian Retires". Beat Gerber eds., June 1999.
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Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus E. Wirth (15 February 1934 – 1 January 2024) was a Swiss computer scientist and winner of the 1984 Turing Award. He is best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering.
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